Background
Boris Vasilyevich Mertsalov (Mertsalov-Sukhoruchkin) was born on 1904 in Ostrogozhsk, Voronezh, Russian Federation.
Boris Vasilyevich Mertsalov (Mertsalov-Sukhoruchkin) was born on 1904 in Ostrogozhsk, Voronezh, Russian Federation.
Boris Vasilyevich graduated from the two courses of the Kharkov Conservatory (1924, class of conducting and French horn).
Boris Vasilyevich worked in the orchestra of the Chimkent operetta (1924-1930). He was the conductor of the Samara (Kuibyshev) Theater of Musical Comedy and Opera Theater (1931-1964). During World War II he headed a mobile opera house.
Boris Vasilyevich put on a stage more than 100 productions, among them: Nikolai Mikhailovich Strelnikov's "The Kholopka", Matthew Isaakovich Blanter’s "On the Bank of the Amur", Boris Alexandrovich’s "Wedding in Malinovka" and others.